Relevance of spirituality in current times

We live in times where fame and money are parameters of success measurement. Stress is considered natural. Taking advantage of others and once-in-a while cheating pass off as 'being smart'. Not much harm is seen in this. We have come to accept all this. It has become so natural that any idea / suggestion contrary to this sounds un-natural. And convincing that 'being good and honest is, infact, the correct way of life' - requires lots of justification and explanation.

However, the inner voice / intuition keeps making noise, always. But, we prefer to ignore. Because, the immediate fruits of ignoring the intuition, appear to be very sweet and irresistable. We succumb. We continue to live this way. Always chasing something elusive, taking pride for being under stress and always postponing our happiness for something that is yet to be acheived. In the process, happiness appears elusive, if not 'non-existent'. We may have spurt of happiness, transient happiness / fleeting happiness whenever we get a job, got a salary hike, married, children born, got a house or something similar happens.

So, how to be happy? It's a challenge! How can we maintain relationships with a smile? How do we start responding than reacting? How do we maintain our mental peace? How do we balance various issues? The answer lies in turning to spirituality.

Probably, spirituality has never been more relevant than in current times. Being spiritual, being aware and practicing spirituality hold keys to happiness. The fruits of being spiritual are very sweet. We have to get just a taste of it. This is not to be postponed for our post-retirement age. "Use" spirituality while young. Life will be a bliss.

The best way to get onto a spiritual path is by following a 'Guru'. It can be done otherwise, as well. However, it's sufficiently long and tiresome that we easily give up. So, the best way to do is - follow 'Guru'. Following Guru is, infact, following whatever Guru teaches (in letter and spirit). Happiness follows.

Love everyone. Keep smiling. Be of some use to someone. Happiness blossoms.

We need not lament that we started late. No issue. Let us bring our youngsters onto spiritual path. Let us tell them how spiritualty enhances productivity, how happiness is ever-lasting and how strong a person one can become. They would, I am sure, find it 'in'! This is one thing that we can definitely do to make our childrens life happy. Let's do it!